A671 crash in Burnley on 25 November 1980 at 12:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A671 in Burnley at 12:40 on Tuesday 25 November 1980. The 23-year-old male driver of the car and the 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 1980
- Tuesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78921, longitude -2.23918, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980040FA0957
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 671
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A671 in Burnley, 5 October 2011
1 m awayRef 201104FA11100
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 10 February 2022
6 m awayRef 2022041143913
Slight
Bus crash on the A671 in Burnley, 7 June 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040FA0449
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 23 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200504FA05139
Slight
Bus crash on the A671 in Burnley, 27 January 1984
14 m awayRef 1984040FA0101
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A671 in Burnley, 3 December 1979
20 m awayRef 1979040FA0993
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1980040FA0957 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 1980.